Ableton Live Tutorial: Creating Half-Time Beat Variations

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Dubspot Instructor Mike Hatsis aka Banginclude demonstrates how to create half time style drum beats in Ableton Live. Learn how to build up drum pattern variations to give your tunes some variety and energy. Hatsis also shares some simple mixing tips to add more depth to your drums and make them sound cohesive.
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@farhan_jiwani 10 лет назад

Didn't know about that velocity ramp trick! That will speed things up a bit, thanks Michael!

@MusicalSilence207 11 лет назад

lol stallone is teaching me how to make dubstep! :) very cool :)

@sellpo 8 лет назад

oh my , i love your way of explaining it all man :o Cheers !

@Tr0ll321 13 лет назад

Wow I love that track !

@weaknessofaman 12 лет назад

select the midi track (drum track you wanna work on) and on the bottom it should pop up. if it doesnt appear on the bottom of your screen press shift tab and it should change from the device appearance to the midi note editor. this is called the clip overview. =] just realized this is three months old. well, glad to be of service. =P

@jackatejill 13 лет назад

another great vid thanks for the help

@marioCazares 12 лет назад

Ableton does come with an instrument rack where you can choose anything from guitars to strings or synths sounds, etc. You can play and record the notes with a MIDI controller, with the computer keyboard, or simply draw out the notes in the program.

@RoC1909 15 лет назад

Kick ass video. Thanks for the tips!

@falzaabi 13 лет назад

i love it thx

@sclr 15 лет назад

nice. yeah, a nice dub slap delay on a snare every once in a while creates some good atmosphere.

@nelsonthekinger 14 лет назад

CRAZY THING!!! AWESOME!

@Retrospacesuit 11 лет назад

The Choke setting comes in handy on the Snare

@lawsonfurnessmusic6547 9 лет назад

Hey good tutorial! helpful!

@xsploitedsecurity 13 лет назад

nice dude that velocity feature is dope. Didnt even know about that. Big props!

@benny2986 13 лет назад

I watch your video just for the awesomely soothing voice

@poundld01 13 лет назад

man thats sick!

@blayis1337 12 лет назад

this is what dubstep SHOULD sound like.

@schattigepoepie 13 лет назад

dude, that's awesome! :D

@camtwan1 12 лет назад

You can click on the top right the lines opposite to the III then click drag on a spot to make the orange come up then right click and say add midi effect if it disappears just re click the line

@MrWhite2277 14 лет назад

@villmister Hi. Click onto the the midi clip that you have created for the drum beat . This will then show the 'clip view' for you to be able to program the beat. If unsure refer to the manual. Clicking on any clip whether an audio clip or midi clip will then reveal whats contained inside the clip.

@dubphonix 14 лет назад

dope track. nice tut as well ;)

@yuri240 13 лет назад

@matrixate Well using Ableton recently changed my perspective on programs in general, it's the best of the best, reason is just for sampling and mixing things better, you're right, but it doesn't hurt to make use out of them both though.

@diderkamal1 15 лет назад

awesome

@pokealong 13 лет назад

dude your a total bad ass, thank you

@TrialOrc 13 лет назад

@DisforDubby If you're using a Drum Rack double click on whatever one-shot you want to add an effect on. This should pop up a Sampler (might be some other instrument) right next to the rack, drop your effects at the edge of the sample's instrument. Make sure it's not at the end, after the Drum Rack though.

@TheGeraldemerald 12 лет назад

Impressive tutorial! Much clearer than some of the professional ones I've bought! (Any chance of a UK Funky/Bass one?)

@MidiFister 14 лет назад

i could be saying the same thing about lfos as the last guy... you can have the envelope in song view, or the clip can have an lfo automation you draw in, and also, if you are recording knob movements they should stay and then become editable/quantize them.... hope any of that helps

@Speakersoxx 13 лет назад

@abazabaaaaaaaaaaaaaa Just drag a drum rack from your instruments folder into a midi channel and then drag your samples onto the pads in the drumrack. Dubbleclick the pads gives you the sound shaping options. A good way to get started with ableton is to look for Sonic Academy tutorials. Good luck.

@snakeandbake 14 лет назад

@aztexthedj no, as long as you space your drums out and modify any settings that are synced to the tempo accordingly.

@cheezebo 13 лет назад

@DubSpot thanks bro

@eArtrash 14 лет назад

A couple very handy shortcuts there! CTRL + drag for velocity and ALT + drag for duplicating midi...nice :)

@mattsbars 12 лет назад

yeah, i really need the dub kick sound

@plasmaforce11 14 лет назад

Nice Sound Bro =D

@synthxplayer 13 лет назад

@soopa123 I'm not sure if you're trolling the dubspot videos or not, but when you create a midi clip in the session view, double click on it to get to the piano roll. Please look at the tutorials that come with Ableton, they will help you alot more than fishing for comments.

@jeffreyokabe 13 лет назад

@Fever655 so, like build up say 4 beats before the drop, and have it going every quarter beat for two measures, then eights for one measure, then sixthteens for the last measure. but just play around with it

@atabeylive 14 лет назад

Yep if you just buy live 8 you just get some instrument, like simpler and impulse drum instrument, and you don't get corpus effect. But if you buy the suite version you get all instruments and corpus effect.

@StrangerDubstep 13 лет назад

@McSorceroUS No problem :)

@McSquizzee 12 лет назад

hit tab and make sure you are in session view, then highlight a portion of the track, right click it and "insert midi clip", then double click that clip.

@TheNick9195 13 лет назад

@Oezilla Its basically how hard the drum is hit, so a high velocity means a louder drum, and vice versa :) Hope this helped :)

@peaceguru84 14 лет назад

How did you make that bass sound? Supremely done.

@MrWhite2277 14 лет назад

@ericpratt1112 Hi. Click onto the the midi clip that you have created for the drum beat . This will then show the 'clip view' for you to be able to program the beat. If unsure refer to the manual. Clicking on any clip whether an audio clip or midi clip will then reveal whats contained inside the clip.

@banginclude 14 лет назад

Just drag in a Drum Rack from Live's Device Browser. Then as woot337 mentioned - just drag in a bunch of samples from Live's File browser to the drum rack's pads. The samples will populate the Drum Rack Enjoy, Michael

@franktamen2802 12 лет назад

its processing and mixning = what makes the track ;) . work hard, you will make it! :)

@cheazyos 13 лет назад

@neveronyx I agree those tamborines were driving me crazy...Good tutorial though!

@RockerDude2k4 13 лет назад

Hey, is there a video up showing how you made the various drum sounds? It would be massively handy, thanks.

@funkdefied1 12 лет назад

@150buckfifty150 As a Windows user, press ctrl+shift+k If you're on a Mac (or that Windows key combo doesn't work for you) look in the top left and go to Options>Computer MIDI Keyboard.

@muffinmanx1 13 лет назад

@BRAINS0N you need to stretch out your midi notes to accomodate the length of the sound you are processing

@r6riderz 14 лет назад

im in tha same boat. i got it as a present and would love to know how to use it haha

@ViaNewson 11 лет назад

i love your voice xD

@Mindlessruione 12 лет назад

you have to pan your beats. if not, u have to use exciters (heaps of plugins such as izotope, wow. etc.) its basically colouring, compressing, watevaaa

@planetNS 13 лет назад

@BRAINS0N Hey, if you're still having that problem then you can just stretch out the note! hope this helps :D

@stubiklaus 13 лет назад

@johnyottpot he said that he is not telling about sound design, is just for showing the pattern

@MrWhite2277 14 лет назад

@ericpratt1112 Hi. Click onto the the midi clip that you have made for the drum beat itself. This will then show the 'clip view' for you to be able to program the beat. If unsure refer to the manual.

@geo2rgas 12 лет назад

bomb

@Zawadzke 12 лет назад

@F0XStep Click on the little headphone icon above the piano roll to sample a note.

@TornadoTwins 13 лет назад

@SPRiNGFiELDfbs Double click the midiclip mate and it will pop up.

@speedwolf 15 лет назад

Try some pingpong on the snare to give it that old dub reggae sound, then you can start digging out all those extra beats that you don't need, creating space but adding depth at the same time. Good tutorial although I'm fairly sure that all dubstep is in or around the 130bpm mark though.

@synthxplayer 14 лет назад

Im not sure if someone else has commented on this yet, but those Tamborines were off time, throwing the groove in a weird spot. i do enjoy all of the tutorials, i just thought this was a bit odd. LOOKING FORWARD TO ONLINE CLASSES :D

@RuslanVerencov 12 лет назад

good good

@StrangerDubstep 13 лет назад

@McSorceroUS Live Devices > instruments, and click on Drum Rack and drag it to a new track or down there.

@melbies 13 лет назад

your voice sounds like the guy from Ghost Adventures on the travel channel!

@SickDoctorMusic 13 лет назад

@AndroxineVortex Bro...Ableton makes ALL!!!

@Klymstep 12 лет назад

can u show how u layered your kick and snare?

@JohnnyChimpo84 12 лет назад

I don't know much, but I know you have to use compressors, side chaining, sends and returns with audio filters to sound better.

@Kyotospeak 12 лет назад

This guy sounds like Mike Vallely when he's being dramatic lmfao

@torment3d 14 лет назад

@mattystreet11 try computer music magazine as a start, or any other music production mag - they always come with hundreds of free samples each issue, so is a great starting point. I've got 3 DVDs from them of pure drum samples... more than you'll ever need :) OR - try creating your own ;)

@Gerson619ASY 13 лет назад

@fmitchell959 no question about it!

@zachariwaters 13 лет назад

that's so dirty i love it!

@KalmarCowboy 13 лет назад

@DubSpot I'm going to get this program. Is it hard to use? Should I get a program that records or do I not need one?

@bikerdudefiftynine 13 лет назад

@gibbs12393 I exported a clap from LMMS and inserted it in ableton lives impulse

@frankytap 14 лет назад

Im a complete noob when it comes to Ableton. Can you please show me how you prepared the tracks as you showed in the beginning, and how you add the drum to it?

@charliebdewing 12 лет назад

@MacGowss He sounds like Basshunter. Dope video btw.

@JRDShamrock 13 лет назад

@Alu142 this is Ableton Live

@SilkEclipse 12 лет назад

@slightoflights features?... Pretty much any program you use has the same capabilities but it's just with what suits you the most... and how comfortable it is to use...

@kLusterofstarsmusic 11 лет назад

check the description

@bridsmath 13 лет назад

is it bad that I use Impulse for my drums? one restriction I feel I'm running into is not being able to put massive amounts of reverb on my snares alone... would you happen to know a work around for that? I have instead stretched them to taste which adds a reverby effect... sounds good

@JRDShamrock 13 лет назад

@Alu142 Well yeah, I'm not an expert heck I started into Music Production about a month ago, I use Reason and to be honest I prefer reason over Ableton instead, I own it as well but I have no clue what makes it the best choice I mean the less you have to do to get something like a simple beat the better right?

@cytherina 14 лет назад

where did you get the drum rack/pack? need it, thanx in advance

@alfredoking14 13 лет назад

is this program as amazing as it looks?

@D4NI3LGONZALEZZ 12 лет назад

ok i own a mac and want to make dubstep...i have the program massive and i REALLY would love it if you guys gave me some good programs to use besides garage band...THANKS!

@guitarsalert 13 лет назад

@DubSpot how to u add notes in that are less than a 16th note? say like a 32nd for faster note playing?

@oculairus 12 лет назад

@ZACHV1NES i dont really see why ableton wouldnt include those things unless its some odd demo mode or something, but even if its demo, unless youre drastically modding the sounds you wont be ablet to do much with those two kicks. have you gotten everything figured out yet?

@MrReaxtion 12 лет назад

@DaeonSkyheart aka. This is what dubstep used to sound like when it was good.

@synthxplayer 13 лет назад

@synthxplayer I came back to this video to see the tips in it (to stay fresh in my mind), and i feel bad that this got voted up. Mike is the fucking man! follow him on twitter to see his patches he makes with Max for Live.

@yopizza 11 лет назад

CAn you please provide with what is good? I thought that was pretty good and there are surprisingly no other videos like it on youtube

@mochajoe 14 лет назад

and how did you make that bassline, i having trouble recording mine in time with my drums

@salexmatei 12 лет назад

Learn from presets... Surely there must be some preset out there that can satisfy your expectations? Then you look what has been done and learn from that. If this isn't the solution, then you just need better speakers (professional monitors) and a sound card.

@apolotoy 12 лет назад

@DubSpot But how do I load the drum kit "digital jah" into the midi track? did you make it on your own because I couldn't find it. And when I try to combine different sounds of kick, snare, etc it won't let me because of my version (maybe because it's a 30 days trial?) thanks.

@jmb102093 12 лет назад

is that bass gated and like sidechained with the impulse ?

@mochajoe 14 лет назад

where can i get those drums from? especially that 'clap' sound?

@muffinmanx1 13 лет назад

@Jackass4850 nope your wrong...to duplicate something you cant just drag it, you need to tell it to duplicate what your clicking by holding "Cntrl"...other wise everything would be duplicatible....im on windows 7.

@WuddupDok 13 лет назад

@Oezilla velocity is how hard you 'hit' the instrument, like a drum in real life.

@TheShakeWels 12 лет назад

DubStep tutorial by a young Sylvester Stallone - Love it.

@SPRiNGFiELDfbs 13 лет назад

what do i do to get that window to place the beats ?????? i'm new in ableton

@reddyfreddy28 11 лет назад

This is for everyone arguing about Joel and Sonny's DAW's Deadmau5: Ableton Live Skrillex: Ableton Live

@Fitzpa14 13 лет назад

how do you get a dubstep drum kit? where did you get digital jah?

@planetNS 13 лет назад

@BRAINS0N OR you can turn off draw mode and drag out the length of the note/beat

@ConnorMorin 13 лет назад

@DubSpot that tambourine was pissing me off lol

@AndroxineVortex 13 лет назад

HI. I have no prior experience to using this kind of software. The only music software I have used is Fruity Loops and that was making Hardstyle music. Is this a good program to start with? I reall want to mkae dubstep so if you could help me out I would really appreciate it =)